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There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.
Ann Radcliffe
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Ann Radcliffe
Age: 58 †
Born: 1764
Born: July 9
Died: 1823
Died: February 7
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Ann Ward
Anne Radcliffe
Anne Ward
Ann Ward Radcliffe
Ann Ward
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Ann Radcliffe
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When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
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At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his glory, unveiling the whole face of nature, vivifying every colour of the landscape, and sprinkling the dewy earth with glittering light.
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Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns, And as the portal opens to receive me, A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts Tells of a nameless deed.
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The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.
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Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
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Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.
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I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.
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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.
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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves.
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There is no accounting for tastes.
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Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.
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I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
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The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!
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There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old man, if his feelings have not been entirely corroded by the world.
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And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.
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The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.
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What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul - and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair - to the anguish of an afflicted one!
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